“What a disgrace to live at the beginning of the 20th century. … One is always influenced by one's own time. And ours is that of Sarah Bernhardt and Rostand. Things will be much better in another ten years. You will see a new art born, new and beautiful. You will see that, but I shall not. I shall be dead. But … Sarah Bernhardt will live forever, and go on playing L'AIGLON forever!”

— Renée Vivien

Quoted in Mercure de France, I-XII (1953), trans. Jeannette H. Foster (1977)

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British poet who wrote in the French language 1877–1909

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